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Cancer pain and related symptoms an overview /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Scope of the problem -- Consequences of unrelieved cancer pain -- Prevalence of cancer pain -- Common cancer pain syndromes -- Special populations -- Barriers to cancer pain relief -- Who develops chronic cancer pain.…”
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Cancer pain and related symptoms an overview /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Scope of the problem -- Consequences of unrelieved cancer pain -- Prevalence of cancer pain -- Common cancer pain syndromes -- Special populations -- Barriers to cancer pain relief -- Who develops chronic cancer pain.…”
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Cancer-related bone pain

Subjects: “…Bones Cancer Treatment.…”
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Spinal analgesia for cancer pain

“…Biomedical & life sciences collection. Cancer pain management : advancing towards optimal symptom management.…”
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Principles and practice of palliative care and supportive oncology /

Table of Contents: “…Difficult pain syndromes: neuropathic pain, bone pain, and visceral pain -- Opioid pharmacotherapy -- Nonpharmacologic management of pain -- Interventional approaches to pain -- Pathology of bone metastases-implications for treatment -- Pathophysiology of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy -- Cancer-related fatigue -- Fever and sweats -- Hot flashes -- Anorexia/weight loss -- Dysphagia/speech rehabilitation in palliative care -- Chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting and treatment-related nausea and vomiting -- Assessment of management of chronic nausea and vomiting -- Diarrhea, malabsorption, and constipation -- Bowel obstruction -- Diagnosis and management of effusions -- Hiccups and other gastrointestinal symptoms -- Biology of treatment-induced mucositis -- Oral manifestations and complications of cancer therapy -- Approach to liver metastases in palliative oncology -- Palliative endoscope procedures -- Palliative interventional radiologic procedures -- Pruritus -- Treatment of tumor-related skin disorders -- Dermatologic adverse events during treatment -- Management of pressure ulcers and fungating wounds -- Lymphedema -- Principles of fistula and stoma management -- Dyspnea in the cancer patient -- Hemoptysis, airway obstruction, bronchospasm, cough, and pulmonary complications/symptoms of cancer and its treatment -- Prevention, assessment, and management of treatment-induced cardiac disease in cancer patients -- Management of hypercoagulable states and coagulopathy -- Urologic issues in palliative care -- Impact of hepatic and renal dysfunction on pharmacology of palliative care drugs -- Hypercalcemia -- Metabolic disorders in the cancer patient -- Infectious complications/management --…”
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Cancer pain management scenarios /

Subjects: “…Cancer pain Treatment Examinations, questions, etc.…”
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Spinal analgesia for cancer pain

“…Biomedical & life sciences collection. Cancer pain management : advancing towards optimal symptom management.…”
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Spinal analgesia for cancer pain

“…Biomedical & life sciences collection. Cancer pain management : advancing towards optimal symptom management.…”
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Principles and practice of supportive oncology /

Subjects: “…Cancer pain Treatment.…”

The rational use of opioid analgesics for cancer pain with a critique of the WHO 3-step ladder /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Who 3-step analgesic ladder for cancer pain -- Overview of WHO cancer pain programme -- Cancer pain: a global problem -- UK national cancer patient survey -- Cancer pain is still endemic in the developed world -- Pain characteristics -- Pain in advanced cancer -- 2007 EPIC survey -- What has been achieved? …”
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The rational use of opioid analgesics for cancer pain with a critique of the WHO 3-step ladder /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Who 3-step analgesic ladder for cancer pain -- Overview of WHO cancer pain programme -- Cancer pain: a global problem -- UK national cancer patient survey -- Cancer pain is still endemic in the developed world -- Pain characteristics -- Pain in advanced cancer -- 2007 EPIC survey -- What has been achieved? …”
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The rational use of opioid analgesics for cancer pain with a critique of the WHO 3-step ladder /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Who 3-step analgesic ladder for cancer pain -- Overview of WHO cancer pain programme -- Cancer pain: a global problem -- UK national cancer patient survey -- Cancer pain is still endemic in the developed world -- Pain characteristics -- Pain in advanced cancer -- 2007 EPIC survey -- What has been achieved? …”
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Pain management in rehabilitation

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The patient with pain a palliative care approach /

“…Biomedical & life sciences collection. Cancer pain management : advancing towards optimal symptom management.…”
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The patient with pain a palliative care approach /

“…Biomedical & life sciences collection. Cancer pain management : advancing towards optimal symptom management.…”
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The patient with pain a palliative care approach /

“…Biomedical & life sciences collection. Cancer pain management : advancing towards optimal symptom management.…”
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Pain in osteoarthritis

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Mechanisms that generate and maintain bone cancer pain / Juan Miguel Jimenez-Andrade, Monica Herrera, and Patrick W. …”
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Clinical pharmacology of pain

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Drugs used in pain management -- Drug administration -- Choosing the right analgesic -- Cancer pain -- Modified WHO ladder -- Opioid medication -- Inter-individual variation -- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics -- Adverse effects -- Half-lives of opioids -- Drug interactions -- How to treat adverse effects -- Neuropathic pain -- Anti-depressants -- Topical analgesics -- Adjuvant drugs -- Non-cancer pain -- Combinations of drugs -- New targets -- Guidelines.…”
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Bonica's management of pain /

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual milestones in our understanding and treatment of pain -- Pain terms and taxonomies of pain -- Peripheral pain mechanisms and nociceptor sensitization -- Substrates of spinal cord nociceptive processing -- Modulation of spinal nociceptive processing -- Supraspinal mechanisms of pain and nociception -- Psychological aspects of pain -- Indivdual differences in pain: the roles of gender, ethnicity, and genetics -- Functional neuroanatomy of the nociceptive system -- Clinical trials -- Sociocultural dimensions of pain management -- Ethical issues in pain management -- Ethical issues in the care of dying patients -- Laws and policies affecting pain management -- Litigation involving pain management -- Opioid policy, availability, and access in developing and nonindustrialized countries -- Medical evaluation of the chronic pain patient -- Electrodiagnostic evaluation of acute and chronic pain syndromes -- Diagnostic imaging of pain -- Measurement of pain -- Psychological and psychosocial evaluation -- Disability evaluation in painful conditions -- Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with chronic pain -- Painful neuropathies -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Phantom pain -- Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia -- Central pain states -- The psychophysiology of pain -- Pain and learning -- Psychiatric illness, depression, anxiety, and somatoform pain syndromes -- The psychology of addiction -- The doctor-patient relationship in pain management: dealing with difficult clinician-patient interactions -- Joint pain -- Myofascial pain syndrome -- Fibromyalgia -- Pain of dermatologic disorders -- Pain due to vascular causes -- Pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome -- Pain following spinal cord injury -- Epidemiology, prevalence, and cancer pain syndromes -- Mechanisms, assessment, and diagnosis of pain due to cancer -- Cancer pain: principles of management and pharmacotherapy -- Interventional pain therapies -- Pain caused by cancer of the head and neck and oral mucositis --…”
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Optimal treatment of chronic pain

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Dealing with the difficult and complex non-malignant pain patient -- It is important to recognize both psychosocial and psychiatric co-morbidities -- Having the patient become part of the solution and having them set realistic goals is important -- Drugs used are similar to those used for cancer pain management but greater awareness of long term effects of opioids such as hyperalgesia and immune suppression, as well as diversion is important.…”
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